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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr William Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr William Smith")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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17426 results for: Keyword - Mr William Smith
We found 10821 matches on Author, 4811 matches on Event Comments, 4282 matches on Performance Comments, 806 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

14501
01 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

14502
03 January 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greek Words Universal Motion

14503
02 April 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I by water to the Opera, and there saw The Bondman most excellently acted; and though we had seen it so often, yet I never liked it better than to-day, Ianthe [Mrs Saunderson] acting Cleora's part very well now Roxalana [Mrs Hester Davenport] is gone. We are resolved to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, we having been three days together. Met Mr Sanchy, Smithes, Gale, and Edlin at the play, but having no great mind to spend money, I left them there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

14504
17 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Maze

14505
24 September 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

14506
10 November 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

14507
17 November 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): William Cooke

14508
23 February 1663 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wild Gallant

14509
02 January 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

Related Works
Related Work: The Sicilian Usurper Author(s): William Shakespeare

14510
03 August 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

14511
28 September 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generall

14512
04 January 1665 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

14513
17 April 1665 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ghosts

14514
29 October 1666 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

14515
07 December 1666 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

14516
24 January 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Goblins

14517
05 February 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

14518
14 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [the Virgin Queen

14519
25 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

14520
22 April 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

14521
13 July 1667 @ no theater listed

Performances

14522
04 September 1667 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Croome's, at the Sign of the Shoe and Slap, near the Hospital Gate in West Smithfield, is to be seen, The Wonder of Nature, A Girl, above Sixteen Years of Age, born in Chesire, and not above Eighteen Inches long, having shed the Teeth seven several Times, and not a perfect Bone is any part of her, only the Head; yet she hath all senses to Admiration, and Discourses, Reads very well, Sings, Whistles, and all very pleasant to hear. Sept. 4, 1667. God Save the King. (Henry Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 189)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

14523
06 May 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

14524
10 February 1669 @ no theater listed

Performances

14525
15 February 1669 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours